Integrative Design in Solar Energy: Pattern with a Purpose

Dr. Jeff Brownson, the final speaker in the North Country Sustainability Speaker Series, will discuss Integrative Design in Solar Energy: Pattern with a Purpose at 10:10 a.m. in the Pine Room on Friday, April 25.

Filmmaker and ecologist John D. Liu will present his talk “The Great Work of Our Time” at Paul Smith's College in the Freer Auditorium. John Liu is director of the Environmental Education Media Project, a senior research fellow at the International Union for Conservation of Nature, and a visiting fellow with the Critical Zone Hydrology Group in the Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences at the Vrije University in Amsterdam.

New Yorker staff writer Elizabeth Kolbert will discuss our changing local and global landscape at this event organized by the Adirondack Center for Writing. Kolbert's new book, "The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History," examines the possibility that a catastrophic extinction caused by humans is on the horizon.

Free for ACW members and the Paul Smith's College community; $5 others.